Litigation
Nov. 1, 2016
$7 million for couple in asbestos case
A husband and wife received $7 million after a Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruled the husband developed a form of lung cancer from an asbestos-laden dry wall product.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Following a three-month trial, a Los Angeles County jury has awarded $7 million to a man and his wife after ruling the husband developed mesothelioma from a drywall product that contained asbestos.
The jury in Judge Mary Ann Murphy's Los Angeles courtroom deliberated for six days, finding that Rich-Tex, Inc. ?should have known its drywall product contained asbestos, whi...
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